A CITY IN CRISIS : Deploying U.S. Troops
In the past, federal troop deployments have included: * 1968: President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered 26,500 federal troops sent to Baltimore, Chicago and Washington when disorder erupted across the country after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
* 1967: President Johnson ordered federal troops sent to Detroit after two days of rioting in July.
* 1960s: Federal troops were used during anti-war demonstrations in the 1960s and 1970s. After the deaths of four Kent State University students in 1970 during a confrontation with the Ohio National Guard, the Army revised its guidance for handling civil disturbances to be “no greater than that reasonably necessary under the circumstances. . . . The use of deadly force is authorized only under extreme circumstances.”
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